Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020

In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, we set up a team to carry out sampling in the community. This enabled individuals to remain in self-isolation in their own homes and to prevent healthcare settings and services from being overwhelmed by admissions for sampling of suspected cases. There is evi...

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Autores principales: Mark, Kate, Steel, Katie, Stevenson, Janet, Evans, Christine, McCormick, Duncan, Willocks, Lorna, McCallum, Alison, Jones, Laura, Johannessen, Ingolfur, Templeton, Kate, Koch, Oliver, Mackintosh, Claire
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020
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Rapid Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32234116
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000217
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author Mark, Kate
Steel, Katie
Stevenson, Janet
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McCormick, Duncan
Willocks, Lorna
McCallum, Alison
Jones, Laura
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Templeton, Kate
Koch, Oliver
Mackintosh, Claire
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description In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, we set up a team to carry out sampling in the community. This enabled individuals to remain in self-isolation in their own homes and to prevent healthcare settings and services from being overwhelmed by admissions for sampling of suspected cases. There is evidence that this is a cost effective, safe and necessary service to complement COVID-19 testing in hospitals.
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spelling pubmed-71183452020-04-06 Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020 Mark, Kate Steel, Katie Stevenson, Janet Evans, Christine McCormick, Duncan Willocks, Lorna McCallum, Alison Jones, Laura Johannessen, Ingolfur Templeton, Kate Koch, Oliver Mackintosh, Claire Euro Surveill Rapid Communication In response to the outbreak of COVID-19, we set up a team to carry out sampling in the community. This enabled individuals to remain in self-isolation in their own homes and to prevent healthcare settings and services from being overwhelmed by admissions for sampling of suspected cases. There is evidence that this is a cost effective, safe and necessary service to complement COVID-19 testing in hospitals. European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) 2020-03-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7118345/ /pubmed/32234116 http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000217 Text en This article is copyright of the authors or their affiliated institutions, 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) Licence. You may share and adapt the material, but must give appropriate credit to the source, provide a link to the licence, and indicate if changes were made.
spellingShingle Rapid Communication
Mark, Kate
Steel, Katie
Stevenson, Janet
Evans, Christine
McCormick, Duncan
Willocks, Lorna
McCallum, Alison
Jones, Laura
Johannessen, Ingolfur
Templeton, Kate
Koch, Oliver
Mackintosh, Claire
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title_full Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title_fullStr Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title_full_unstemmed Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title_short Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) Community Testing Team in Scotland: A 14-day review, 6 to 20 February 2020
title_sort coronavirus disease (covid-19) community testing team in scotland: a 14-day review, 6 to 20 february 2020
topic Rapid Communication
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7118345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32234116
http://dx.doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2020.25.12.2000217
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